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A long time on the seaside – intercourse offender Richard Burrows’ life in hiding

By Editorial Board Published March 17, 2025 6 Min Read
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A long time on the seaside – intercourse offender Richard Burrows’ life in hiding

In Thailand, Richard Burrows discovered an escape – a spot to cover for practically 30 years.

After abusing youngsters, he fled the UK to keep away from prosecution. However the severity of his crimes did not push him to stay a low-profile life – removed from it.

Within the sandy shores of Phuket, he turned very well-known and appreciated. Everybody there knew him as Peter Smith, an identification he stole from a passport that wasn’t his.

Nobody appeared to know the place he had gone after he didn’t attend the beginning of his trial over alleged youngster intercourse offences at Chester Crown Court docket in 1997.

His abuse spanned a large interval from the Nineteen Sixties to the Nineteen Nineties. A number of the offences occurred at a youngsters’s college in Cheshire and others occurred within the Midlands, by his involvement with the scouts.

However it could take 27 years for him to be caught, lastly arrested at Heathrow Airport.

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Richard Burrows was placed on trial after years in Thailand

He had settled in Thailand with a well-known routine and a large circle of acquaintances. He would frequently dine at a small roadside restaurant, usually ordering fish and chips.

The proprietor Pakorn Sanwongwan says the person they knew was sort and beneficiant. They’d no concept of his previous.

“I’m very shocked because from my perspective, he was a good person. For the past 24 years he had recommended our restaurant to lots of people and brought us new customers,” he stated.

His spouse Supaporn says they have been shocked when only a few months in the past he introduced he was “going to the UK and never coming back”.

It is simple to see how many individuals have been duped. He saved the fact of what he’d achieved largely hidden. And his was not a life lived underneath the radar.

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He was concerned within the native crusing group. His associates say he’d labored with native colleges. And he’d labored in native media.

Burrows lived in a container, a brief drive from the shoreline. However issues began to unravel when cash ran skinny.

He started opening as much as a really small variety of shut associates, saying he wanted to return to the UK to see household and was struggling financially.

“Ben”, not his actual title, was amongst these shut confidantes.

He stated: “I knew him for 25 years. Only about three to four years ago, he started sort of revealing a few things that he’s not actually who his passport says he is and that he was searched by the UK authorities for some allegations, apparently, he’s done.”

Ben says he had no concept of the severity of the costs towards him. The person he thought he knew was a form soul, giving and supportive of many he met.

There have been, he says, indicators of his attraction to younger folks, but it surely did not increase alarm bells.

“Peter” had youthful companions who cooked for him at residence and he would finance the schooling of a few of them, Ben instructed us.

“Obviously it was visible that he liked the younger generation. But that he would go for minors I would never have thought,” he stated.

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The container the place Burrows lived in Thailand

All the offences have been dedicated throughout Burrows’ time in the UK, and no prices have been introduced towards him in Thailand.

If Ben knew the small print of Burrows’ sordid previous, he might have thought otherwise. However Burrows was dwelling a lie, having fun with a secret life within the solar.

Remarkably, Burrows went undetected for many years – his visa primarily based on a pretend passport, constantly renewed.

It is unclear what precisely motivated his try to maneuver again to the UK, a transfer that might finish in his arrest at Heathrow.

Some we spoke to stated he had run out of cash and that he wished to see household. However some suspected he was attempting to make peace along with his previous.

Lastly, he has been dropped at justice. However his victims have been left to cope with the horrific aftermath of his abuse.

While he’s now behind bars, they may even must wrestle with the very fact their abuser was capable of get pleasure from a free and full life for thus lengthy.

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